This is the celebration of that which was hatched under Thatcher, boomed under Blair, was bloated by Brown and now triumphs under Cameron: the absolute hegemony of selfish greed and impunity of money.
For starters, it informs us that "the Crimea and the Donbas witnessed the absolute hegemony of Russian language and culture.
Operation "Crime 3" showed that the 'Ndrangheta exercises absolute "hegemony over cocaine trafficking in Europe based on the alliance with Colombian traffickers in Europe and Los Zetas in the US".
Ferdinando Imposimato, now honorary president of Italy's supreme court, singled out former prime ministers Giulio Andreotti and Francesco Cossiga when he told the AffarItaliani website: "The role [of the Italian political class] was one of absolute subordination to this foreign hegemony.
One of the authors, Anatol Lieven, is a brilliant, fiery pamphleteer of the left who has described the neoconservative enterprise as "world hegemony by means of absolute military superiority".
They said the United States "is apparently attempting to seek absolute military supremacy and even greater global hegemony".
An electoral pact he recently forged with the Democratic Alliance (DA), the largest opposition party, to curb the ANC's hegemony, had already upset Mr Mbeki.In the Western Cape, meanwhile, the ANC sought an absolute majority, but was more likely to secure a plurality, and to continue to depend on its feeble partner, the New National Party, to control the provincial legislature.
And until these agreements start to bite, the hegemony of the United States in terms of economics, trade and investment will remain virtually absolute.
The goals that Richelieu set himself were to counter Habsburg hegemony in Europe, which threatened France's independence of action, and "to make the king absolute in his kingdom in order to establish therein order," but at no time was Richelieu powerful enough to achieve his domestic ends by overt measures.
It is not legislative hegemony.
Chance of world hegemony?
